Justin Hardiek banged out three hits, including a home run, and Sam Bushur had a key two-run double, leading the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes to a 7-6 win over Altamont in the opener.

The Indians, behind four hits and five RBI from Tyler Robbins, gained a split in the doubleheader Thursday with a 9-5 victory in the nightcap.

In the first game, Hardiek had an RBI single in the first and solo homer in the fifth. Bushur capped the three-run fifth and drove in what proved to be the winning runs with his two-run double, putting the Shoes up 7-4 at the time.

Altamont got single tallies in the sixth and seventh to close the gap, but Dylan Pruemer got a double play ball to end the game and earn the save for the Shoes. Evan Addis pitched the first six innings to get the win.

The game was tied 4-4 when the Shoes came to bat in the bottom of the fifth. Hardiek led off with a blast over the left-field fence to put THS on top to stay. With two outs, an error and a walk gave T-Town a pair of runners and Bushur brought them both in with his two-bagger.

Altamont had taken a 4-2 lead in the third, but the Shoes came back to tie in the bottom of the frame. Matt Deters and Hardiek started things with base hits. With two outs, Pruemer drove in a run with a single and Derek Deters followed with an RBI double.

The Indians had their hitting shoes in the second game, banging 13 hits. In addition to the four hits by Robbins, Hayden Siebert, Mason Robinson, Lucas Shepard and Gage Wendling each had a pair.

Robbins, who only needed a home run to hit for the cycle, had an RBI single in the first, a two-run double in the second, a run-scoring triple in the sixth and got his fifth RBI with a bases loaded walk in the seventh.

The Shoes scored four times in the bottom of the first to take an early lead. They combined two hits, an error, a hit batter and awalk. Brayden Gaddis drove in the first run with a base hit, Joey Ruholl added an RBI on a ground out and Cade Buehnerkemper capped the inning with a two-run double. A wild pitch allowed T-Town to score the tying run in the third.

But the Indians took the lead with a tally in the sixth and then tacked on three more in the seventh to earn the split.

Josh Burrell took the loss for the Shoes.

Teutopolis is now 11-6. The Shoes have just two games left on their fall schedule. They will host St. Anthony on Friday and then travel to Dieterich on Monday. Game time both days is 4:30 p.m.